Grove - Mini Camera

If you are searching a small size camera, perhaps, Grove-Mini Camera would be your best choice. It’s a mini camera which can be controlled by Arduino. It has integrated image processing to generate 1280*720 JPEG image. The captured pictures are stored in SD card and you can read SD card information via Mini 8Pin USB interface.

Now there should be a video in the SD card because we call the function once during Setup(). To play the video, you can either directly connect the camera to PC via USB cable or use a reader to read it. And if somebody approaches when it's working, you should also find some pictures in the SD cards also.

Here is the state description of this mini camera. There are 5 working states.

1. Standby： Set key as high level for 2 seconds when in the power off state, Red LED will come on. Mini camera enters Standby state.

2. Power off: Set key as high level for 5 seconds, camera enter Power off state, Red LED will fade out.

3. Take pictures: Set key as high level for about 1000ms when in the power on state, camera can take a picture. Red LED will blink once to tell you that one picture has been taken. Afterwards, it automatically enters standby state.

4. Video: Set key as high level for 2 seconds when in the standby state, Camera will enter video state and red LED blinks continuously. To stop it, set key as high level for about 1000ms, camera will enter to standby state.

5. Files storage: Connect camera to pc using USB cable, you can open image file and VIDEO file. You can also access the files in the SD card by a SD card reader.